The new Family Life Education curriculum materials with the new sexual orientation and gender identity additions are posted.
Review the materials, and remember to opt your child out of lessons, or the entire year. Look at the materials, and teach your child the materials yourself from the perspective of your family values. It will have much more meaning to your child if you spend the time to teach them than coming from a teacher reading a script.
FLE materials are here: (click curriculum at the top for materials)
https://fcps.blackboard.com/
Opt out forms are here:
http://www.fcps.edu/is/hpe/fle.shtml
It is highly recommended that you opt out of at least the new gender identity/sexual orientation materials, that are intended purely as propaganda.
An example I find offensive, is in 7th grade when a slide is shown regarding discrimination, the teacher defines it for the students this way:
"Discrimination: treating of some people differently than others without any clear reason; treating people unfairly based on a category, such as age, race, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identification"
Note the addition of "sexual orientation" and "gender identification", as well as the omission of "religion" and "national origin". There is a long list of problems I have with the materials. The FLE content is full of bias like this which I find very biased by the creators of the curriculum.
As a concerned parent, I highly recommend:
1) Log into Blackboard, click the "Curriculum" link near the top and look through the lesson details of the FLE lessons, and presentation for your child's grade.
https://fcps.blackboard.com
2) Print out the "Opt Out Request Form" forms for your child's grade, and check the boxes next to those lessons in which you do not want your child to take part. I recommend checking all the boxes, and personally teaching your child yourself based on the contents, but from your point of view with respect to your personal, religious or cultural values.
http://www.fcps.edu/is/hpe/fle.shtml
- Remember to check next to each lesson you want your child to not participate in. They will be given alternate arrangements, such as going to the library, where they can do homework, read books, magazines or other activities.
- Remember to turn in the opt-out forms with the other required forms at the start of the school year, or to your child's FLE teacher prior to the start of FLE lessons.
NOTE: The lesson descriptions on the opt-out forms are vague, and it is better to review the actual class script the teacher follows, as well as the slide presentations and videos shown which are all available for your review on Blackboard.
3) Spread this to other parents to inform them of their right and ability to review and opt-out of objectionable FLE content.